We are pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for the 2025 CyberPowder Fellows Program. CyberPowder is an NSF-funded wireless networking hands-on training and research mentoring program for US-based graduate students. (NSF CyberTraining award number: 2417934)
The CyberPowder Fellows Program addresses the problem that wireless experimental research is inherently multidisciplinary, crossing the EE and CS divide; that wireless networking is undergoing rapid technology and regulatory change; and that today’s wireless testbeds are highly sophisticated, which also means they require significant training to use. The Program is led by three professors across EE and CS at the University of Utah, Neal Patwari, Robert Ricci and Kobus Van der Merwe, with support from the POWDER platform technical staff. The Program trains students across the wireless stack to perform wireless related research on POWDER, the world’s largest openly-accessible software-defined wireless testbed. POWDER is deployed across the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City and remotely accessible from anywhere in the world.
The CyberPowder Fellows Program consists of:
Why should you apply?
The CyberPowder Fellows Program is free to the selected graduate student Fellows, including travel to Salt Lake City for the week-long research exploration.
How to apply:
For full consideration please apply by November 29th 2024. Selected Fellows will be notified by December 10th 2024.
Important dates and planned timeline for 2025 CyberPowder Fellows Program:
Note that while the CyberPowder Fellows Program is primarily aimed at US based graduate students, we might be able to accommodate a small number of non-US students. (Such participants will not be eligible to receive travel funds.) Please contact us if you might be interested in this option.
Enquiries please email at: cyberpowder@powderwireless.net
CyberPowder staff will engage with Fellows and their advisors to understand their research objectives and support them in defining experimentation plans that will allow them to evaluate their research on POWDER.
We expect this phase to run in parallel with the online training activities, with a goal of having each Fellow define a specific experimentation plan before the in-person exploration event.
In-person research exploration will be a weeklong event at the POWDER facility on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, Utah. Fellows will be reimbursed for travel, lodging and meals. (Details to be provided.)
The CyberPowder staff and POWDER platform staff will be available during this week to support Fellows with their exploration.
We are planning to have a demonstration session at the end of the week where Fellows will be able to present their experiments to invited guests.